Q You know where I'm going with this because it's the last special episode of the season. I am talking to the co-founders of Solana itself, Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokul. We are pumped to close out the season here with you guys. There's a quick refresher. Can you tell us what the Solana network was built to accomplish?
A It's a public blockchain. So it was billed as a faster version of Ethereum. And that's kind of very, very high level way to talk about it. But our initial vision, like the slide deck and everything in those super early days said that it's blockchain and NASDAQ speed. And the big dream idea is imagine you have a global computer that doesn't matter where you're at, but this computer perfectly synchronizes all information on it as close to the speed of light as possible. So when news travels around the world, you know, so does the information through this thing, because if you can get to that speed of light update speed, you are as fast as news. You're as fast as the fastest markets. It doesn't really matter if, you know, NASDAQ has like sub nanosecond, whatever trading, because that doesn't trade on news. It's just trading a statistical noise. The other thing about Solana is it's very, very energy efficient. So single Solana transaction is about like two or three Google searches. So if you think of it as using a web service, this is a network that, you know, takes as much energy as a regular web service. In comparison to the proof of work chains, this is like a million times more energy efficient. To me and to Raj, this was really important that that was true.
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